Should President Trump Keep His Promise to Cancel the Paris Agreement on Climate Change?

Reason.com discusses the Paris Climate Treaty with Chris Horner.

In the New York Times, legal analyst Christopher Horner of the free-market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute, asserted, “Despite the mad rush to insist that plain language means either the opposite of what it says, or else nothing at all, under any canon of construction, Article 4 does not permit revisions downward.” It’s a ratchet. Contrariwise, Todd Stern who was the Obama administration’s chief climate negotiator claimed that the flexibility to reduce targets was written into the agreement by careful design. “It wasn’t like, ‘Boy, nobody thought of that,'” he said to the Times. The plain language of the agreement does imply an upward ratchet, but since there are no explicit enforcement mechanisms in the accord, nothing would happen to a country that formally lowered its ambition, or even just ignored its nationanlly determined contribution commitments.

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